Myanmar rebel group

Soldiers from the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) patrol on a vehicle next to an area destroyed by the Myanmar military's airstrike in Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town, April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha//File Photo
South Asia

Myanmar's ethnic armies consolidate strongholds as junta weakens, reports say

Operation 1027, a coordinated offensive last October led by three ethnic armies, marked a key moment that exposed a weakened military, which ceded swathes of borderlands in Myanmar's north

Myanmar's junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1, 2021, presides over an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
World+Biz

Losing ground to rebel alliance, Myanmar junta faces biggest test since coup

A Chinland Defence Force fighter poses for a photograph at an undisclosed location near the India-Myanmar border, in the northeastern state of Mizoram, India, November 23, 2021. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
South Asia

In Myanmar's Chin state, a grassroots rebellion grows